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Vučić's regular term as president ends next year and he is not allowed to run for a third term according to the constitution.
As expected, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has resigned from office. "Today is the day I resign," Vučić said in a speech on state television station RTS. His successor will initially be the President of the Serbian National Assembly, Ana Brnabić.
With this step, the partially autocratic politician is paving the formal path for his next career step. In the early parliamentary elections on October 25th, Vučić wants to run as the top candidate of his right-wing nationalist Progress Party in order to be able to become prime minister if he wins. His time as president ends next year - he is not allowed to run for a third term.
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Vučić will run as his party's leading candidate in the parliamentary elections on October 25th.
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Ana Brnabić will assume interim presidential duties until a new president is elected.
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